Aironet 350 Series WiFi Issues

Hello Everyone,
Your assistance is greatly appreciated in this matter. Currently we have approximately 30 of the AIR-CAP3502I-A-K9's distributed across two floors that is being controlled by a wireless controller at another site. Signal strength is excellent, however, once devices connect to the APs the transfer rate DROPS dramatically. We think it is due to the outside interference in this building which are detecting almost 400+ rogue devices nailing our WiFi. Anyone have any suggestions/ideas?

Unless you know the username password, the only way is to perform a reset on the ap..... or else it would be too easy for people to access equipment that doesn't belong to them.

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Initializing Flash...
flashfs[0]: 142 files, 6 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 7612416
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 3407360
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 4205056
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 0 seconds.
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4 -rwx 2190 config.txt
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flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 7612416
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 3407360
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 4205056
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